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World’s first guided missile

The world’s first guided missile was invented in the 1870s by an ingenious Irish man, Louis Brennan.  Brennan also invented what is probably the first tilting train and an early  type of helicopter. Brennan’s guided missile was a torpedo steered by wires.  It was designed to defend naval ports and harbours –  not as an […]

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